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Title: And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano : The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule ISBN: 0-671-86871-3 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 29 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (140 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Too long.
Comment: Ann Rule was one of my favorite writers, and still is, but I can't say I much care for "And Never Let Her Go". It's not a bad book, but it's way too long. I got bored in places. Ann just seemed to go on and on and on and on and ON about Anne Marie and everyone. I mean, 700 pages devoted to just one murder. By comparison her Ted Bundy book (and he killed scores of women) was only 550. I really think this book could have used another few passes at the editting table, for cuts. Also, I don't think Debby MacIntyre is the innocent put-upon Ann makes her out to be. In her book "Small Sacrifices", Ann wrote that Diane Downs ruined her marriage but she was careful to point out that Steve Downs wasn't exactly a saint. I wish she had done the same with Debby and Tom -- Tom is a [...] no doubt, but Debby did after all have an affair with her friend's husband. Kay Capano and Anne Marie Fahey are the wronged women in this story, not Debby MacIntyre.
Rating: 2
Summary: Fascinating case, disappointing book
Comment: This is the first book of Ann Rule's that I have ever read (though I've seen a couple of TV movies based on her work)and I think it might be my last. While *And Never Let Her Go* is not terrible exactly, it never really comes together as a compelling, dramatic narrative. Given the material there was to work with here, that's really saying something.
I first became aware of/interested in the case a few years back when there was an extended piece on it in the magazine Vanity Fair. As already mentioned, I had never read anything by Anne Rule before, but I'd definately heard of her, given what seems like the 50 or so titles under her name in most bookstores; every one of them a bestseller. So, although there were a couple of other books on this subject in the True Crime section, I figured I'd go with the one that I'd been led to believe was "the best."
What a mistake! While Rule amasses an impressive amount of information about the personal lives/backgrounds of both the leading and supporting players in this real-life psychodrama, she doesn't weave it together in a way that really draws you in. Rather she seems content to simply pile fact upon fact and trust that this alone will keep the reader interested. Despite all the research she's done, there is a lot of gaps re: details surrounding the year-and-a-half police investigation and the trial itself. And the aforemnetioned information about the lives of the characters doesn't seem to have given her any insight into what made them tick. Instead, Rule falls back on pop-psychology cliches more appropriate to another facile "Wonderful Women who Love Horrible Men" yackfest on Oprah.
Another problem with this book is its rather heavy-handed bias. Don't get me wrong, Thomas Capano was an evil, sick individual, who in the end got exactly what he deserved. Nonetheless, Rule's obvious emotional involvent with the family of Anne Marie Fahey (the murdered girl)ends up rendering her account weirdly out of balance. As a former reporter, Ms. Rule should know that no matter what her personal feelings, she needs to step back a little and let the story tell itself.
Throughout the book, bad, or at the very least, questionable behaviour on the part of anyone Rule is sympathetic to is glossed over or excessivly alibied for. Everything always seems to be the result of Thomas Capano's diabolical manipulations and the viselike hold he seemed to have over scores of people. Yet all human beings have choices, and the resonsibility for living with the consequences of those choices - be they good or bad - is theirs and theirs alone. Just as an example, for a woman who was supposedly determined to extricate herself from an affair with a domineering, controlling man,Anne Marie Fahey did a very good job of sending out a lot of mixed signals to say the least. A lot of "normal" men would probably have been encouraged to continue with their wooing in similiar circumstances. After all, the human heart is volatile and complex thing; rarely the woman good/man bad scenario that seems to be Ms. Rule's worldview.
Based on *And Never Let her Go* I doubt that I'll be searching out any more of Ann Rule's many titles. Although to be fair, she has obviously done very well for herself without my patronage thus far. Still, I wish now that I'd saved that old copy of Vanity Fair magazine, as that account of the case was far more interesting than this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: I Couldn't Put It Down !
Comment: Ann Rule is an excellent writer, no one could out-do her book about this case. She brings people in the book to life and includes a lot of detail. Very well-written. It will remain one of my favorites among Ann's books. Ann is able to write with feeling,emotion,clarity, and common sense....it is very human writing..... is why it's so wonderful to read her writing. She is a great reporter.
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Title: EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED by Ann Rule ISBN: 067169071X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: DEAD BY SUNSET : DEAD BY SUNSET by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671001132 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671868691 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Every Breath You Take : A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743439740 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder by Ann Rule ISBN: 0671769200 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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